“Intro to Appalachian Studies: Navigating the Myths of Appalachian Exceptionalism.” In Gantt and Burriss, eds., Appalachia in the Classroom: Teaching the Region (Ohio UP, Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia, 2013): 3-32.

Wilma Dykeman “Faces of Appalachia” Post-doctoral Research Fellowship for the Study of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, $4,000, National Endowment of the Humanities and the Appalachian Studies Association, 2009.

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Current Research: A study of the appeal of backwoods horror films, 2000-2015. Interdisciplinary research regarding environmental health in central Appalachia, 1980-present.